Chocolate sales under the theme of “Sengoku warlords” started Gifu Sekigahara-cho January 9 11:46
Before the broadcast of NHK's taiga drama "Kirin ga Kuru" starts on this month, sales of chocolates with the theme of Sengoku warlords such as Mitsuhide Akechi began in Sekigahara-cho, Gifu Prefecture.
Gifu Prefecture and Sekigahara Town have been working with a major Western confectionery maker to sell chocolates with the theme of Sengoku warlords at the time of Valentine's Day four years ago, in an attempt to attract tourists using the old battlefield. You.
Also, sales have started at tourist facilities in front of JR Sekigahara Station. Released in nine series were named "TSUWAMONO". Among them, the product "Wisdomist" which imaged the main character of "Kirin ga kuru" and Mitsuhide Akechi, imaged "Honnoji no Hen". It is a set of nine chocolates, such as chocolate that kneaded red pepper powder in the shape of a flame, and chocolate that has irregularities that resemble a stone wall on the surface in connection with the fact that Mitsuhide was good at building castles.
This series will be sold at department stores and shopping centers nationwide, including the Sekigahara Station Tourist Exchange Center, until next month.
A couple in their 60s from Yamanashi Prefecture said, "I bought it because I thought the image was interesting." Miki Segawa of the Sekigahara Ekimae Tourism Exchange Center said, "I want to make Sekigahara a lively Sengoku warlord as the Taiga drama begins."